When I ask myself, is anything unchanging?, I am wondering particularly about literature, ideas, things like that. The bible, of course, BASICALLY doesn't change, although through the years there have been NUMEROUS translations - I read once there are...

Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff , came out in the late 1950's or early 1960's on Broadway. Richard Burton as George and Elizabeth Taylor as Martha (a fitting pair!) I believe starred first on stage then in a movie version. Both were...

"This lousy war" has been a phrase used by soldiers for a long time... and for some varied, and good reasons. My take on war is that it shouldn't happen. While Randolph Bourne said that war is the health of the state (and he was right, economically),...

What is literature? What is good literature? Better yet... why is literature? And why not? I've often heard it said that a good book, or a good movie for that matter, is one that makes you laugh and makes you cry. Why is that... important, in a piece...

Actually, it was Stanley, the explorer, who said, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?" when he came across the only caucasian he had seen in Africa for a long time, and the person he had been looking for for almost as long. Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965, was a...